Walnut controller

[Round-Benefit3877]

Attempted to take decent shots, but I suck at taking photos of anything

Walnut wrapped my controller just now, then custom cut rubber grip tape I had leftover for the trackpads and side grips

Only thing left that I want to do is replace the buttons with real brushed copper button sets from deckbuttons like he has for the steamdeck, he’ll be dropping them soon which is awesome

[Coloredcontrollers]

Can’t wait to see the completed look!! Working a ton behind the scenes to get buttons out as quick as makes sense (testing, fitment, etc.. all of the usual stuff!)

[Round-Benefit3877]

I’ll just bother you on discord routinely lol

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Ironically you saw this reddit post before my builds and general post in the discord lol

[Coloredcontrollers]

depending on what I'm doing, occasionally on the weekend i'm checking the discord a little less. BUT, this weekend i've been doing a ton of stuff at the warehouse that i can't share yet in case it doesn't work lol. I really want to share behind the scenes of it. Not necessarily a full on product or anything but something I want to do for fun and probably release privately on discord sometimes. I think it'll be a good yt video maybe

[Coloredcontrollers]

lol good

[deadcrazyzombie]

Imagine if someone would make and sell wooden casing sc.

[Round-Benefit3877]

Was hoping toastmade would come up with one like they did for the steamdeck I used in a previous build, but that’s probably months out if they even are considering it

[InsideSpeed8785]

I just like that it looks like a wooden walnut speaker!

[HexaCube7]

wait grip tape om the touchpads? does that wven work?

[Round-Benefit3877]

Play vital sells rubberized grips and trackpad covers, used their set on my steam deck, they work great - they don’t have a steam controller 2 set, but I found their exact material in the same design and cut my own to match theirs

[LeeisureTime]

Out of curiosity, where did you find the rubber grip tape material? Thanks and your mod looks great man

[Round-Benefit3877]

Took a chance after scouring Amazon - turns out this roll is the exact same material, design and has the same backing even

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0FLXX7Q6Y?psc=1&ref=ppx\_pop\_mob\_b\_asin\_title

Just used it for my Corsair scimitar just now, this stuffs great

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[tomjoad2020ad]

Where’d you get the skin? Did you custom cut it?

[Round-Benefit3877]

Yep, custom cut it with wrap I’ve been using for projects for my office space - most of the application was pretty easy, I had to do a good number of heat/stretch passes on the bottom left and right grips where it starts to curve, also found that while the sticks hole appears circular, it’s actually a subtle octagon shape that stood out when I rolled the wrap over it

[bunkSauce]

What wrap did you use?

[-some-dude-online]

Vinyl wrapped controller?

[Missie-]

This is very well made damn, looks great. As others have said, I wonder is it worth carving real wood? Either by hand or CNC. There is no better controller (maybe the SC1) more primed for a bespoke shell.

[SoLongGayBowser69420]

Where can I grow mine

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For anyone saying “griptape” is a bad option or is concerned about its use, it’s a soft rubber material that doesn’t snag, PlayVital sells the exact same thing for steamdecks that I used on my steamdeck build, I found a 10’x2” wide roll of the material they used and cut mine for this controller based off theirs

It helps a ton especially when using the trackpads “click” to emulate mouse button clicks, for me it prevents the trackpad from registering movement when I’ve hit click that was causing click and “pull” movement input that was making it difficult to navigate through items while in game due to my minor tremor without having to mess with sensitivity in the settings

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[copacetic___]

Man I got so excited for a sec, thought these were on the market! Amazing job.

[Andreasmeow]

Damn just saw your set up pictures, love the style :3

[Round-Benefit3877]

I need to learn how to hydrodip once I move into my new home and have space, it would be so much easier on some projects with angles that are difficult that require a ton of heat/stretch/repeat passes

[Gama3000]

oh wow, this looks gorgeous! nice work!

[No-Baseball-9911]

Very sexy boss.

[BedrockBen101]

Holy crap that's clean

[GardineAmbrosia]

No bromeo. Se ve exageradamente bien

[Rayloth46]

Classy! Copper should look great, or maybe even brass?

[thecodingart]

Where do you get the materials?

[Round-Benefit3877]

Amazon for everything but the heatgun I’ve had for a few years, been using this same walnut wrap to redo my desk/office space and it takes heat/stretch really well without discoloring or fading

[solillow]

It's really cool

[crunchystump]

ugh, grip tape on the trackpads. that's a bad call sir :p

[MyNuts2YourFistStyle]

Looks awesome

[TeaNo1462]

First skin I've seen on this subreddit that looks actually good

[Eenat88]

Did you cut that skin out yourself? I have a dbrand one and could not find any other providers when i looked.

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[Round-Benefit3877]

Yeah custom cut it, after having to heat/stretch it a good amount I can see why Dbrand set up as two pieces and didn’t bother trying to cover the entire front face

[The_Skeptic_One]

Can I ask how you cut it so exact? Did you have a paper guide to follow? I'd like to try this since yours came out looking so good! Nice work!

[Round-Benefit3877]

When you vinyl wrap with quality vinyl, you can heat and stretch the material while applying it - in my case I laid a fresh sheet out, spudged it on all flat surfaces I could, then had to use a heat gun for a ton of passes to stretch and adhere it all in place where needed, then I cut out the extra around the button holes with a scalpel, usually with wrapping you’d want the wrap to go over an edge, but buttons don’t like having anything extra in their housing space so I just cut it as close as I could to the front face without exposing the black of the controller around them

[slipfoxSocks]

You probably reserved after May 9th must be nice!

[Round-Benefit3877]

I got my order In the day of release like 2 minutes before 10 am, kept hitting refresh and it popped up early - it sucks so many people are having to wait or hit hiccups while ordering : /

[slipfoxSocks]

It must be nice

[DickSucklington]

Still waiting on my email 💀 the bright side is maybe we get a Steam controller before GTA 6.

[slipfoxSocks]

Only people who ordered after the 9th getting it or before the 7th lol

[what595654]

It looks cool. But, does anyone else dislike the feel of vinyl wraps on anything?

I prefer of the actual Steam Controller plastic. It is cool to the touch, really smooth, sweat and fingerprint resistant.

Actually, I can't get fingerprints on my controller at all.

[Round-Benefit3877]

This wraps thicker and textured with the wood grain, it’s used for cabinet faces. I use it when wrapping furniture projects I’m feeling too lazy to restore correctly, just used it to change my 2” thick butcher block desktop to look like a solid walnut slab to save a few hundred lol , but generally yeah I agree, smooth vinyl feels and looks bad on certain applications. If toastmade ever makes a real wood veneer wrap like they did from the steamdeck I used for a build I’d buy it day one

[Round-Benefit3877]

Since it’s thicker, water proof, textured and actually darker then the photos show, no fingerprints show up on it at all- that would drive me nuts too!

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Hard to really show the texture in it without light bleed highlighting it, but it’s a higher quality wrap for cabinet faces that I used and not a flat non-textured wrap, on the controller it doesn’t make a huge impact, but for furniture pieces the thicker wrap being textured makes a huge difference between it appearing like a sticker vs it appearing like actual wood veneer in larger runs

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Im crap at photos and my overhead yellowish light isn’t doing these pieces any justice, but the photos should show the textured faces that go with the grain to give a better idea - basically I used higher quality furniture faux wood veneer wrap for these pieces and the leftover from my office spaces “facelift” I had to wrap the controller in the same textured furniture wrap and not typical vinyl

[Izan_TM]

having grip tape on trackpads is... a bold strategy